DANCE HALLS: 652-653

changed the rules/inhibitiions of traditional public culture in the 1920-30s-- replaced freedom with excitement and release
Causes
- African American migration brought new forms of jazz popularized through the phonograph and radio
- increase in youth culture-men and women interactions (sexual entertatinmnet)
- prohibition--led youth to seek excitment elsewere
Wore fancy clothes, hair styles, went to New York, Chicago, Boston, ect.
In 1924 New York city 6 million people attended dancehalls, over 10 percent of men an women between 17 and 40 went dancing once a week
showcased popular music that encourage althletic and sensual dancing that was looked down upon as morally wrong ( for women)
"taxi dance" ballrooms-- popular for drugs and alcohol, and prostitution which high class ballrooms attempted to avoid by enforcing dress codes
popular amongst working class/immigrant men and women-- gave them a chance to freely interact amongst other races

there were laws passed the restricted/prohibited certain styles of dancing

The Cinema

1920s- The U.S. was the first country to create the film industry
70 percent of films are seen in France
80 percent of films are seen in Latin America
95 percent of films viewed in Canada were all made in the United States
700 featured films each year/every year--10 times more than any other nation
competition began to develop between other countries and America when they saw the penetration of the American movies into their culture
The U.S. continued to have over 40 percent of the worlds cinemas and movies were Americas most influential export at that time and even today
other notable film industries: India and Asia

The Decline of the Self Made Man

Main Idea: The idea that success was no longer possible without education and training, and that people were becoming more dependent on rules and norms of society

that their were set social standards-- social immobility unless you were talented, and educated, as well as trained
Oppurtunity and taking advantage of those presented to you
ambivalent-- confuse, conflicted, unsure

Chapter 24: Five Main Ideas of the 1920's

America sees a significant rise in consummerism which meant more people were buying things which helped the economy of the United States as a whole-- a time of affluence and economic prosperity.
America developed a new culture as a result of the rise in new leisure times such asf the cinema, the dancehall,cultural trends, and the development of new arts.
Religious fundamentalism arises
Battlees between consumerist and liberals become more profound.
Women start to become less domesticated, and begin to par take in more leisure activities

Stock Market & Chapter 25 Preview

- prices for shares change depending on the company
-regulates the flow of money
-causes of the great depression -- stock market crash

Hoover Adminstration- During the Depression

Agricultural Marketing Act-- aid to farmers to keep them in business-- farmers get subsides to not make stuff
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Glass Segal Act
stop spending money to create government jobs-- conserve the government budget
* Hoovers downfall was sealed by what happened with the bonus army --picture 687
tarrif--Holy Smoote tarrif-- farming agricultural imports -raise tarifs on imports exports were declining and they began to decline even more

- Chapter 25 Questions-- Class Review -- ( see binder for questions)
1-- very bad-- high umplyment rates
2- alot of women who would enter the workforce were forced out of the work force-- unemplyoment rates for women were high
3-
4-attempts to contain the problems but they were insufficent and ineffective for the majority of the time- very limited attempts
5- major beatdown an landslide fdr took the presidency from underneath hoover by a big number
banking crisis was baddd very very bad -- first thing fdr deals with when he comes into office

The Great Depression

Chapter 26 Main Idea

The new deal did not end the great depression
The New Deal was critized by both sides: liberals, radicals/extremist
Longest serving president served for 12 years- four terms-- 1933-1945 and died in office
America was helping win the war by 1944-- when FDR dies just before the end of World War Two
WW2 is what really ended the great depression

Movie Notes
- first thing FRD addressed was the banking crisis-- shutting down the banks for four days
- idea of "action" --come to office and start taking action- called Congress into special session
- both houses of office were Democratic--same as president --allowed them to do basically anything they wanted
- allowed alcohol back into America
- agricultural adjustment act -- farmers were on the verge of revolution/anarchy--paid farmers to grow less and sluaghter animals a through government subsidies
- turned federal government in the nations larlgest employer-- i.e. CCC
- NIRA
- planned economy: communism and socialism
- Francis Perkins-- first women to ever serve in a Presidents Cabinet-- labor secretary
- Propaganda

The Legacy of the New Deal

Focused more so of fixing the economy rather than social change-- there were some symbolic changes ( Black Cabinet, first women in Cabinet, ect..)

Electoral Realignment- a new coalition for the democrats-- African American votes shifted
FDR was able to sway African Americans to vote democratic-- ever since
Federal Housing
Social Securtiy
WPA buildings
FDIC- federal deposit insurance company -- if you loose your money the government will give it back to you
FCC- regulate stock market
Deficit spending-- keynesian economics-- spending borrowed money-- Keynes said that the government could utilize government spedning to benefit the economy-- that it was not a bad idea if the government went into debt
Did virtually nothing for African Americans & Women
Left a new philosophy of the American government-- they had a responsibility to ensure protection of American people
Indians were acknowledged through the New Deal-- got a minority of the change through the administration through the Indiana Reorganization Act

Unit Six